The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-09-01
CHATAUQCA.
ALI.TUE WORLDS A COACH--MEN
AND WOMEN TRAVELLERS.


The Over-wOrked Mind and Body Need
No Law or Precedent 10 Establish
Their Claim for Rest.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.]
Had the grand old English poet been
also prophet what think you would have
first attracted his itiumined eyes2
Were Shakspere living now metbinks he
would deem it greater privilege to be
master of COACH than of STAGE, and
could write with seeming truth, "All the
worlds a coach and men and women
merely travellers -
Does the ovcrworked mind or exhausted
body need a law or a precedent to estab-
lish their claim for rest2 .
Is not self-preservation the FIRST law of
nature, and did not Antony and Cleopa-
ira take sea voyage, and Mahomet enjoy
a trip to the mountains!
SeashOre and mountains are as attrac-
tive to modern travellers as they were to
the ancients, proof of which is our an
nual hegira, which is ushered in soon,
but few months after the flight of the
birds.
Experience in testing personal magnet
always resulted in favor of the everlasting
hills. And since they remained so firm
and unmoved at the bidding of the great
prophet Mahomet, like they, go to the
mountains rather than send out further
invitations, and having about the same
expectations as a certain old lady, are
more consistent and do not PRAY their re-
moval. Leaving to wiser heads the more
scientific reasons for all this fitting, we
will pass by Niagara, Saratoga and the
Adirondacks, where only Presidents expect
to catch whales, and visit this ''chile amang
us and "faith' will take some notes.
Chatauqu;i Is called Il CHILD among sum
mer resorts because it was so recently es-
tablished. The name is old if the place is
not. and though young it is in excellent
company and need not go begging for a
reverend estimation" That excellent
periodical, the n &. Teacher, claims the
name Chatauqua to be Of North Carolina
origin | its name is congenal to the Old
North State trust some account OF Its
present nature and advantages will not
prove uninterestlng.
In the extreme western part of New
York State lies little village-a summer
hOme-whlch combines, on a small scale,
both mountain and shore. 1t is thirteen
hundred feet above the level of the sea and
seven hundred feet above Lake Erie,
thongh distant from 1t only nine miles.
The lake, from which the village derives
its name, and upon which it is situated is
IA clear and beautiful little sheet of water,
two miles wide and twenty miles long.
The place is carefully laid off III streets,
avenues and parks, and contains between
seven hundred and a thousand cottages.
There are no rough or unpainted houses,
but all are of modern design and hand
somely painted; many costing from six to
ten thousand dollars. The public build
ings are all large and commOdiOus. The
Hotel Athenaeum was built at a cost of
two hundred thousand dollars and will
accommodate several thousand guests. 1t
Is built upon side hill and one may ent er
any floor without climbing stairs.
The Amphitheatre, where all the public
concerts and lectures are held, will com
fortably seat six thousand. Bordering the
Lake is Palestine Park, miniature Holy
Land, Dead Sea, Jordan and all. And the
little town also boasts OF one Of the hand
soonest docks IN western New York.
Steamers are constantly plying between
this place and Mayville, Jamestown and
other points of interest. Although the
summer home of but ten thousand people,
the grounds are constantly filled with
transients and many days there are owe:
twenty-five thousand people there. Its
sanitary rules are Of the ''strlctest sort,
aud it may be justly proud of that quality
ranked next to Goodness. Only pure wa
ter can be thrown on tho grounds; all of
fensive matter, including dead leaves and
weeds, are carted off by garbage men
everyday Water works, electric lights,
daily papers. zone twice the size OF the
STATE CHRONICLE) free library, museum,
parks, steamers, yachts and row boats add
to the attractions.
But none of these constitute the special
feature of Chatauqua. We could name a
hundred resorts in this State with greater
attractions than those above named. Not
in these or even in the (for this season.
blessed state of the thermometer, lowing
to constant breeze it is never oppressive
and seldom, if ever, uncomfortable, can
describe it's chief attraction no better than
to give the words of the Southern educa
tor, Dr. Noah X. Davis. In his address
of August 3rd he called Chatauqua an
inverted Niagara" A great force tend
ing upward 1t is an intellectual resort,
congenial home for people of the high
est culture, under the government of the
Chatauqua Literary Society whose object
is general culture.
During the months of July and Au
gust a COlleSe OI LlDoIdI itItSi CtHool vi
Theology, College of Fine Arts and q
Business College are in good running or
der, and superintended and taught by the
best educators and specialists in America
For those who do not take all of any course
mentioned, and for those who have some
time unoccupied, there is systematic
course of lectures, readings and concerts
given each day, at least four per day, sc
all may have choice.
A good idea may be had of the genera
entertainments from the programme fo1
one day, Aug. 3rd: At II o'clock, A. NJ.
DIR. Fairbairn, of Oxford, England. lee
tured on the "Conf1ict of the Sixteenth
Century," at P. M, Will Carleton reat
| from his own works. Another lecture a
P NJ. and at night Miss Won Finkelstein
| of Jerusalem, Palestine, gave an orienta
entertainments, subject: " Homes ant
Haunts of Jesus"
| Among other things remembered as be
longing to same week, were a lecture ol
Aristotle by Prof. Noah K. Davis; fou
very interesting oriental entertainment
by Miss Won Finkelstein, of Jerusalem
lectures on Schiller and Washington Ir
wing, by Prof Schmitz, of Germany, ant
Wallace Lew (the author of Ben Hur), al
organ recital by Prof Flagler, and an il
lustrated lecture on Christ in Art, by Rev
W. H Ingersoll, LII. D., and dozen othe
very fine entertainments, and all in on
week, and that week no better than tn
| others.
When we consider that at Chatauqu
are representatives from every State i